Crime and Punishment

Roman F.M. Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment” (1866) is one of the most significant works in the history of world literature. He accommodated several mutually reflecting layers at once: historical, philosophical, psychological, dramatic, detective, religious. In addition, it is also the novel “Polyphonic” - a genre, first created by Dostoevsky.
The author does not convict his heroes - Raskolnikov, Sonya and others, he together with them makes a painful path from thought to crime and seeks the way to repentance, expressing his view of the nature of man and his appointment.
This publication is illustrated by the works of Mikhail Shemyakin, which help to better penetrate the metaphysical meaning of the novel and have an autobiographical character, testifying to the internal experiments of the artist’s self -knowledge